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Sustainable Urban Metabolism

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The upcoming book (in press), Sustainable Urban Metabolismis intended to provide a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages between environment, economic, social and technical/infrastructural issues that lead to an integrated information-intensive platform from which alternative urban technologies and ecologically-informed planning may be achieved. Contrasting and opposing urban objectives can be considered holistically, avoiding the usual pitfall of solving problems in one sector only to create new ones in others. The three sample chapters:

The upcoming book (in press), Sustainable Urban Metabolismis intended to provide a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages between environment, economic, social and technical/infrastructural issues that lead to an integrated information-intensive platform from which alternative urban technologies and ecologically-informed planning may be achieved. Contrasting and opposing urban objectives can be considered holistically, avoiding the usual pitfall of solving problems in one sector only to create new ones in others. The three sample chapters: